Cenk Uygur
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Trump’s Racism Rallies Ratings?
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July 20, 2019
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9:35Now PlayingTrump's racism could be part of a larger plan. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report. Follow The Damage Report on Facebook
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"Following the latest racist outburst from President Donald Trump -- this time targeting four Democratic congresswomen -- many in the mainstream media quickly moved on from covering the despicableness of Trump’s comments to entertaining the possibility that his attacks were evidence of a high-level political strategy to sow division among Democrats in Congress. In doing so, the press is assisting in Trump’s attempts to rebrand his open bigotry as strategy and giving cover to a Republican Party that allows it.
The morning of July 14, Trump sent out a series of tweets that told four Democratic congresswomen -- Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) -- to “go back” to their home countries. (All four congresswomen are American citizens, and three of them were born in the United States.) Trump’s racism immediately became a major news story, although some outlets struggled to call it what it clearly was -- e.g., The New York Times deployed a tortured euphemism “racially infused politics.”
After much hand-wringing over what to call Trump’s racism, some mainstream commenters moved on to pushing the notion that Trump’s comments were not mere bigotry but evidence of a planned political calculus -- an attempt to heighten the disagreements that Democratic lawmakers are reportedly having about political strategy."
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